Talking to B

The same night I met B. or better said she met me, she approached me with her long arm, gentle as a willow, but bound to the presence of a man. She was desperately looking for me and she found me at last.

- Hello, my name is B.
- Well, hello, B., nice to meet you.
- You too!
- And what is it that you do, B.?
- Oh, I’m sick. I’m a sick person over at Unconscious and Depressed. Have you heard of them? They have put together a very successful business: a lot of satisfied employees and many other people to follow their politics.

- I am sure…I definitely have to look into what they are doing.
- You do that. They have done a pretty job for me, I’m almost one step to being completely enlightened. I mean, I will be promoted next month. I’ll be dead.

- Really? I am so happy for you. You are truly an inspiration. How did you manage to go such a long way in such a short period of time?

- Well, to tell you the truth: it hasn’t been a bit easy. I can ensure you of that.

- I am convinced, but what is the secret, if there is one?

- There are a lot of them. In fact secrets are what take you to this level. The more you have, the quicker you promote. It’s like degrees.
- I see. Unfortunately I don’t have any secrets. Not even childhood ones. I never liked them. I always tried to run away from them. See the thing is: I am an only child and have been raised to be selfish. It’s not my fault, nor my parents’. It’s life’s fault. And every time that I had something to eat, I just could not share it with anyone. Therefore, keeping secrets made me think that I would have to feed them too so they could keep on living safely with me. But I couldn’t do that, so I ended up letting them out, go to someone, so that I could have my dinner in peace, all by myself.

- That’s too bad. Maybe you’ll get one. One for free, so that you won’t have to feed it. You see, as long as you don’t pay for something, therefore not invest, therefore not having had to work for it, it no longer requires your attention, care, trust, love. It exists on its own. The same thing happens with love relationships. They are ships that last and don’t need repair and care. They have to last, since they were given away for free. The sad part is that we insist on taking care of them, and involving and we end up by smashing them on some cliffs, or leading them in a shipwreck. I personally think that they should sell us friendships and relationships. Yeah, make us pay a lot of money, like mortgage and interest for as long as we live. So that we will take care of them with deep conviction and ensuring them in any possible way we can so that nothing bad could happen. Just imagine the commercials and the discussions on the street: how much was your relationship…that expensive? Wow! You have a lot of guarantees for it. I‘m sure it will work on the clock!